PSYC 3480 Study Guide - Final Guide: Family Values, Sexual Orientation, Christina Hoff Sommers
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Compare women and men on their educational attainment and career aspirations. Adolescent girls have higher educational and occupational goals than boys. Middle class boys plan to go to college, working class boys don"t. Women obtain majority of associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees. Discuss the evidence for and against this view. For: girls have more well-developed plan to attend college, women earn majority of the degrees, 75% of graduates from vet, medicine, pharmacy are female. A significant minority of countries continue to educate more boys than girls. 3. the benefits that result from educating girls. Females who complete high school have fewer and healthier children. Discuss the meaning of and evidence for a chilly classroom climate for women. Chilly climate = faculty members display different expectations for female students, single them out, or ignore them. There is biased treatment of women students, coverage of course material, microagressions subtle forms of humiliation and bias. Women participate more in class, collaborate more.
